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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1896
Page
2
Readable lines describe fair cheeks and a winning smile as gems of Western girls with admiration. The text presents poetry imagery and incomplete phrases about beauty and roses.
In a warmly lit Metropole hotel room a wealthy woman named Lydia and her lover Dick Meynell map a dream honeymoon across Paris Rome Naples and the Nile. Lydia fears happiness yet yearns for a perfect future as their plans unfold amid romance and tension.
Lydia confesses a brutal past from childhood poverty to a loveless marriage with Mr. Vern on. She describes escape through Sir Geoffrey Thorp and a divorce that leaves her free but haunted. Dick Meynell fears the truth may destroy their romance as Lydia faces an oncoming confrontation with Vernon.
The column notes Europe’s population rise with 12 510 000 in luesia and 67 000 in France. It reports London’s county plan three years from completion and Vesuvius lava lighting the night. Locust control in Natal costs 25 000 dollars with 50 officers. Faure’s Arles visit finds hospital fully booked by convalescents.
A Rochester Post-Express tale recalls a dangerous Central line descent with cars coupled on the fly and flames from hot rails. It contrasts wild western railroading with a German salmon marking experiment and ends with a comic misread on love and money in a New York joke from the New York Press.
A traveler recalls a Russian legend about a wandering exile who meets a hidden last tribe of Tsreal in northern Siberia. They live like ancient Israelites, using Solomon’s temple vessels, and travel a river that moves six days a week and rests on the seventh before sending him back to Russia.
Tennessee plans a six month centennial exposition in a 200 acre blue grass park. Buildings include Fine Arts a Parthenon replica Mercantile Machinery Transportation Auditorium Woman's and Agricultural with a history and children's pavilions funded by public donations and child fundraisers. The inaugural ceremonies June 1 1896 will feature Len Jessee and a George Washington proclamation in the Auditorium.
The Chicago Chronicle reports a plan to convert waste leather from shoe shops into charcoal. A metal retort similar to gas plant gear would cost under $200, and a single operator could run the facility. Leather scrap shrinkage to charcoal reportedly reaches about 99 percent.
A shining example of steadfast focus, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. of Chicago has spent GS years making grain and grass cutting gear. It now builds about one third of the world’s binders reapers and mowers, a dominant share among roughly forty manufacturers in the field.
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